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A new VFAT patent avoidance patchA new VFAT patent avoidance patchPosted Jun 29, 2009 14:29 UTC (Mon) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)In reply to: A new VFAT patent avoidance patch by hawk Parent article: A new VFAT patent avoidance patch
I think this is a dangerous assumption. My digital camera connects to a TV set via a special »AV cable« with an RCA plug at the TV end. If I want to show a bunch of digital pictures to my parents, who don't happen to own one of those newfangled TV sets that take USB sticks, I put the selection on an SD card and use the digital camera to display the pictures on the TV via the AV connection. It's maybe not the greatest quality, but it works — and it is much nicer to sit in the living room than to crowd around the computer in the den. Of course this involves assembling the collection of pictures to be shown on the computer (Digikam is useful for that). I don't know whether my camera will insist on/tolerate 8+3/long file names/both but I would certainly hate that functionality to go away, in particular because AFAIK the VFAT patents aren't actually valid here in Germany. (Also, think »digital picture frames«.)
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